Consumption and Real Estate
Senior Citizens: To your knowledge, are living in retirement homes a positive thing?
Question : Senior Citizens: To your knowledge, are living in retirement homes a positive thing?
Do you think you’d enjoy living in one or do you thing it’s only a last resort for those with no family, etc? What have you heard about them?
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Best answer:
Answer by dude.
Retirement homes are just a place to store old people while you’re waiting for them to die.
If you have a lot of money (lots and lots) a retirement home can be a nice place, if you don’t, you’re better off in prison.
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#2 written by I luv my kids 1 year ago
My daughter and I work in an assisted living home. It really depends on the person. We have people who love it and people who are bored. They are free to come and go as they please but choose to stay in their rooms and not socialize. No I don’t think of them as last resorts. My mother in law is 88 and cannot be left alone. So the entire family has had their schedules upset and changed so that she can stay in her home. My neice has moved in with her 4 children now. It is ridiculous when they could put her in an assisted living where she would have around the clock help when she needed it.
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#3 written by mikskali 1 year ago
I love and am encouraged by WooleyBooley again’s answer. Some of us are social enough that it is an ideal situation. I certainly appreciate the acknowledgement that most of us have had enough of minor, boring maintenance chores and cutting grass. Some of us have no family upon whom we can burden ouselves. I see it as an opportunity to be with peers … sort of like being on YA and going, first, to the Senior Citizens category – which is what I do.
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#5 written by Tom E 1 year ago
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#9 written by ..ROXY..sheila from oz.. 1 year ago
when a person is no longer able to take care of themselves,even with assistance,a retirement home ,for their own safety ,is a good idea.
some are better than others, there are strict regulations ,and if they are not conformed to ,the managers need to be reported and dealt with by law.
whether it’s a pleasant life style ,or waiting room for the inevitable , depends entirely on the out look of the person…..and their loved ones… -
#10 written by WooleyBooley again 1 year ago
Very much 100%. I live in one, family is thirty minutes away. My choice. Obviously you don’t have a clue. Why would I burden myself with owning a house (been there, done that many times-tired of maintaining them ) or burden my son & his family with taking care of me ??? They DO have their own lives .
By the way-it isn’t your last choice-many of us it is the first & only choice when we retire.
I suggest you find out the difference between a retirement home and Assisted living” homes. Retirement home means group activities, free to come and go as you please. What do you think Assisted Living means???
If I was incapacitated why would I burden my kids by living with them ? - Comment Feed for this Post
Are you talking about an actual retirement
home or a nursing home? My mom moved
into one after my dad died – before she got
alzheimer’s, and it was a beautiful place.
Everybody had their own private apartment
with an outside entrance and they had their
own parking spot and guest parking spot.
They were served three hot meals a day
and their apartments were cleaned, laundry
done, hairdresser and beauty shop, etc.
There was a beautiful lounge, a library/reading
room and a dining room where they could all eat together, or they could cook in their own
apartments or have their meals served in
there by the main kitchen.
It was a marvelous place! Quiet and
peaceful, and if you wanted to visit or
play the piano or use the exercise
equipment all you had to do was go
through your inside apartment door which
entered into the hall of the building.
I just can’t say enough good things
about the place.